Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-08

House OF Bishops Of the Protestant Episco
pal Church Of America upon the subject O.
Christian unity.
The steel board met at the Navy Depart
ment on the 18th and considered certain
propositions coming from contractors fol
the new cruisers now building, and from
department officers looking to q modifica
| ton OF the tests now prescribed for the
steel. After some discussion the require
ments were amended in several particu
| lars.
GEORGE NJ. GRAHAM. OF Rochester, n. Y,
who was shot in London, England, On the
night Of November q by Dan Doherty. oil
New York, after quarrel over gambling
| debt, has died from his wounds.
NINETY-FIvE cigar factories in Havana,
| Cuba, shut down recently, owing to the
| demands Of the cigarmakers for an in
| crease in wages. About II, 900 men were
| thrown out OF employment.
THE trial of E. l.. Harper, the defunct Fl
deity Bank president, began at Cincinnati
on the goth.
The Western Union on the 29th an.
nounced a reduction of telegraph rates.
THE New York Court of Appeals has or
dered a new trial for Jacob Sharp, convict
ed Of bribery in the Broadway surface rail
way matter.
THE new high bridge for foot and wagon
travel over the Mississippi at Dubuque,
Iowa, was formally opened on the 29th, a
large civic and military procession parad-
ing the principal streets.
HERR MOsT, the Anarchist, was convicted
by the jury in New York on the 29th. Sen
tence was deferred until the question of a
new trial was settled.
r. s. SMITH editor of the Redwood Cal. }
Times and Gazette, was shot and fatally
wounded recently by DR.. y. Z. Powell.
The latter had been accused in the columns
Of the paper of defrauding a widow.
A FARMER named Arby recently shot and
killed two colored men who attacked him
on his farm in Marlborough County, South
Carolina, while he was endeavoring to drive
them off his posted lands. Arby surren-
dered to officers of the law.
THE leading dry goods commission house
of Brown, Wood 4 Kingman, New York,
has gone into liquidation. It was doing a
business of 2,OOo,OoO a year.
THE Ontario Department of Justice has
issued warrant for the extraditiOn of j.
Byrne, in custody at Chatham and wanted
in Chicago on charge Of arson.
THE Governor of Culacan, Mex, has Of
fered reward of $4,000 for III capture of
the bandit Eraclio Bernai. He has burned
and almost depopulated many districts of
San Ignace and his terrible massacres are
known throughout tho Republic.
In addition to the corner in srelter re-
Gently announced, another French synd-
cate is reported to have successfully cor
nered the tin market.
CAPTAIN GEORGE A. THOMPSON, of Deer
Creek, Mimi, has been ind cted for mis-
using funds Of the school district OF which
he was treasurer.
THERE was report at Pesth, Austria,
recently that valuable prntings of Rem
brandt, Durer, Raphael and others had
been stolen from the National Museum.
THE increasing lawlessness reported in
the Indian Territory is attracting atten-
tion. AS many as seven murders occurred
within four days recently within an area of
one hundred miles.
AN explosion of choke damp occurred
in collicry in Poremba, Slesia, recent
ly, killing thirteen miners and wounding
several others.
THE Postmaster-Gen annual report
was published on the Both. Every thing
was said to be in excellent condition, eX-
penditurcs being lesscned and facilities in
creased.
THE Standard Oil Company was reported
considering scheme to build mammoth
pipe line frsm Chicago to New York, in-
volvng an outlay of millions of dollars.
JAMES MCLAUGuLIN and Robert Perry,
fishermen, were drowned on Lake Erie,
near Erie, Pa, recently, half mile off
shore Their boat was overloaded with
fish. causing the broken ice to wash into
the boat and swamplt.
The building of the Strobridge Litho.
graphing Company at Cincinnati was
burned on the morning of the 1st. Loss,
S>OO,OO0. Insurance unknown.
ROBERT KERR, of Paisley, Scotland, has
bought twelve acres of land on South Wa
tuppa pond. Fall River, Mass, on which to
erect 4 thread mill, employing 100 hands.
DIPHTHERIA of a peculiarly fatal char
acter is alarmingly prevale Mt at Montreal
Last week there were thirty-two deaths
from the disease.
A NEWS vender at Killarney has been
sentenced to a months Imprisonment for
selling copies of United Ireland containing
reports Of meetings of suppressed branches
of the National League.
TIE Navy Department has invited pro-
posals for supplying a submarine vessel for
naval purposes. The patents of this ma
ture are numerous, but no other navy in
the world has vet taken a practical step
toward their adoption.